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Picard Campus<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

President of the American Canadian School of Medicine (ACSOM), Carey James, said the new medical school will open its doors in Picard, Portsmouth in August of this year.<\/p>\n

He was speaking during an interview on State-Owned DBS Radio.<\/p>\n

The school is said to be a replacement for Ross University School of Medicine (RUSM). In August 2018, RUSM announced that it would be shutting down its operation in Dominica and would be operating in Barbados from January 2019.<\/p>\n

RUSM was located in Portsmouth and was a huge source of income for the island\u2019s second town for about 40 years.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are right on schedule with our plans to open, actually, August 14 for orientation at American Canadian School of Medicine,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

He continued, \u201cWe have two critical accreditation visits coming up at the end of April and the beginning of May, once we learn of those accreditation decisions we can actually start accepting students.\u201d<\/p>\n

According to James, the school opened its applications last week which is available on the website, www.acsom.edu.dm<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cThat stands for American Canadian School of Medicine which we are very proud of our curriculum and the training that we are going to be able to provide,\u201d he stated. \u201cIt\u2019s really a small group-centered, that\u2019s physician-led, students are taught in teams of 10\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n

Furthermore, James pointed out that the ‘edu’ in the school\u2019s website address refers to the fact that, \u201cwe are proudly an education institution, we are actually non-profit, we can talk about how important that is in our mission.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are not owned; we actually have a board of trustees that is very distinguished that you can find on our website,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n

He went on to state that the ‘.dm’ in the school\u2019s website address refers to the fact, \u201cthat we are proudly a Dominican medical school.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is our home, this is our headquarters, this is where we are centered, this is our focus,\u201d James noted.<\/p>\n

ACSOM maintains a strong commitment to training excellent physicians through a clinically integrated curriculum, a large network of teaching hospitals, a thriving international student environment, traveling faculty from elite U.S. medical schools\u2014such as Yale and Penn State\u2014and integrated preparation for the U.S. and Canadian licensing exams.<\/p>\n

While presenting the 1.3 billion dollar budget for the Fiscal Year 2022-2023 in Parliament last year, Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit said since the departure of Ross University, the government has received several expressions of interest to establish a medical school at that facility.<\/p>\n

He announced that after several months of negotiations, his government entered into an agreement with CSOM Holdings Limited for the operation of a medical school at the former Ross University Campus at Picard.<\/p>\n

The Prime Minister said the school will offer a 4-year medical degree (MD) designed for students who have already completed bachelor’s degrees and will be run by an experienced team of doctors who have held positions at major universities in the United States including a former vice president of operations of the RUSM.<\/p>\n

\u201cMost of the students are expected to come from Canada, the United States of America, and the Caribbean,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

He urged all Dominicans to be prepared for the opportunities which will be created with the return of a medical school to Portsmouth.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are optimistic about the potential of this new school and its positive impact on Dominica and on the people in the North in particular,\u201d Prime Minister Skerrit stated.<\/p>\n

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